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CVE-2020-22037

Published: 1 June 2021

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in avcodec_alloc_context3 at options.c.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ffmpeg
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1)
focal
Released (7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish
Released (7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(7:4.4.1-3ubuntu2)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4.1)
xenial
Released (7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm3)
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Patches:
upstream: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=7bba0dd6382e30d646cb406034a66199e071d713

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H